EAPIL blog

The Hague Academy of International Law Summer Course provides an opportunity each year to engage with some of the most significant questions currently shaping private international law, bringing together established scholars and emerging researchers from around the world. As part of the 2026 Session, noted on this blog, the editors of the EAPIL blog invited […]

This post was contributed by Dr. Ivo Hlaváček. The case law on cross-border portability of personal status has developed quickly. Coman, Pancharevo, K.S., Mirin and now Cupriak-Trojan share a structural feature that has drawn less attention than their outcomes. In each, the status was acquired while the Union citizen was genuinely residing in another Member […]

Alex Mills (University College London) has posted Private International Law and Property in Outer Space: ‘Finders, Keepers’ or ‘the Province of All Mankind’? on SSRN. The abstract reads: This chapter considers the possible role of private international law with respect to property in outer space, with a focus on space mining activities. The law which […]

Giesela Rühl (Humboldt University of Berlin) has posted Regulating Contracts across Borders: The Role of Private International Law on SSRN. The abstract reads: Private international law – or conflict of laws, as it is commonly referred to in the United States – deals with the co-existence of different legal systems and determines which state’s law applies […]

Private International Law and Children’s Rights Law by Tine Van Hof, Senior Researcher and Guest Lecturer at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing. The blurb reads: How do private international law and children’s rights law interact-and conflict-in international child abduction cases? This book examines the relationship between two legal fields […]

The author of this post is Johan Tufte-Kristensen who is an Associate Professor of Private and Procedural Law at the University of Copenhagen. In a decision of 8 May 2026, the Danish Supreme Court considered whether a child who had been wrongfully retained by his mother in Denmark should have been returned to the United […]

On 8 October 2026, the Colégio da Trindade of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra will host the I Meeting of Private International Law Professors, entitled Recent Developments and Future Perspectives in Private International Law – A Reading from Portugal. As already noted on this blog in connection with the call for […]

The European Association of Private International Law has established a Working Group to prepare a position paper on draft UNIDROIT-ICC Principles and Model Clauses for International Investment Contracts. Olaf Meyer agreed to serve as chair. The goal of the Working Group is to respond to the private international law aspects of the project. The UNIDROIT/ICC […]

In April this year, the Oxford University Press published The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Private Law, edited by Douglas A Kysar and Ernest Lim. The Handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative treatment of the intersection between climate change and private law in general, including private international law (PIL), bringing together contributions from leading […]

The Hague Academy of International Law has made known the programme of the summer course of Private International Law of 2027. The course will be opened by Pierre Mayer (Emeritus Professor at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) with the inaugural lecture entitled Private International Law and Normative Competence of States. The general course, titled International […]

The second issue of the RabelsZ (The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law) for 2026 has been published. The RabelsZ has announced an overhaul of its governance structure and editorial processes in this issue. Holger Fleischer, Ralf Michaels, and Anne Röthel will be joined by Jens Kleinschmidt of the University of Trier and […]

The author of this post is  Javier Carrascosa González who is a Professor of Private International Law at the University of Murcia. Dr. Carmen María Noriega Linares has published a book on The Free Cross-Border Circulation of Arbitral Awards and International Public Policy (“Libre circulación transfronteriza del laudo arbitral y orden público internacional“) with Editorial Colex […]

The European Commission (EC) has just closed the procedure in which it assessed complaints concerning incompatibility of French compensatory levy of Article 913(3) French Civil Code with the Succession Regulation. French compensatory levy mechanism In 2021, the French Civil Code was amended by adding the third paragraph to its Article 913. This provision reads as […]

The Hague Academy Centre for Studies and Research of 2027 will be held from 16 August to 3 September 2027. The 2027 edition of the Centre will focus on International Law on Mineral Exploration and Mining. The Directors of Research will be Diana Correa (Externado University of Colombia) and Arnaud de Nanteuil (Paris-Est Créteil University). […]

On 27 July 2026, the UK Supreme Court released three judgments of relevance for private international law, thereby providing a lot of interesting material to read over the summer. Collectively, the three judgments concern state immunity, jurisdiction and the effects of foreign judgments. This post briefly outlines the facts, issues and decisions in these three […]

The legal confrontation between the European Union and the Russian Federation over the effects of restrictive measures continues to intensify. In recent months, the interaction between sanctions law, private international law and national countermeasures has become increasingly complex, as both sides have adopted instruments aimed at protecting the effectiveness of their respective legal frameworks. On […]

This post was contributed by Antonio Mariconda, who is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Naples Federico II. In cross-border legal relationships, it is not uncommon that individuals’ expectations about the legal treatment of their situations are not matched by reality. This has to do with the fact that parties to cross-border situations are […]

The latest issue of the French journal dedicated to international dispute resolution, Perspectives Contentieuses internationales (PCI), has been released. It is an open access publication and can be freely read here. Concentration of Cross-Border Disputes (Part 1) This new issue features the first part of a special dossier on the concentration of cross-border disputes edited […]

This post was contributed by Vytautas Vaicekauskas who is a PhD candidate at Vilnius University. On 16 July 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) delivered a judgment in case No C-196/24 (“Aucrinde”) for the first time concerning the Regulation (EU) 2020/1783 on cross-border taking of evidence in civil and commercial matters […]

This post was contributed by Dr. Vincent Richard, who is a practising lawyer in Luxembourg. As announced by Marta Requejo on this blog, the Court of Justice delivered its judgment in the case Aucrinde (C-196/24) on 16 July 2026. This is the first case on the recast of the Evidence Regulation (Reg. 2020/1783) and, more […]